Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Geldof

My depressions aren't so much... depression's too heavy a word. I get very down and y'know, boredom is the key to it as I've said.

Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

David Mitchell

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

David Nevins

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Edgar Degas

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Charlaine Harris

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Charles Baudelaire

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

Tom Kloza

I can tell you traders aren't thrilled by that idea.

Michelle Monaghan

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Frank Nelson

She's not real thrilled about me being away so long, but she's very understanding.

Roz Foster

We had no idea it was still there. We were thrilled to find it.

Camille Paglia

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Ashwin Sanghi

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.